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Hubble Focuses on the 'Great Attractor'
January 22, 2013 — A busy patch of space has been captured in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the ... > full story -
Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud
January 17, 2013 — Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it ... > full story -
Astronomers Find Massive Supply of Gas Around Modern Galaxies
January 11, 2013 — Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel -- in this case, fresh gas -- but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies. Now, scientists have ... > full story -
Nearby Dwarf Galaxy and Possible Protogalaxy Found: Telescopes Reveal Intergalactic Traffic Jam
January 11, 2013 — Peering deep into the dim edges of a distorted pinwheel galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear), astronomers have discovered a faint dwarf galaxy and another possible young dwarf ... > full story -
Biggest Structure in Universe: Large Quasar Group Is 4 Billion Light Years Across
January 11, 2013 — Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross ... > full story -
NASA's GALEX Reveals the Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy
January 10, 2013 — The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now astronomers have crowned it the largest-known ... > full story -
A Jumble of Exotic Stars: New VISTA Snap of Star Cluster 47 Tucanae
January 10, 2013 — A new infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope shows the globular cluster 47 Tucanae in striking detail. This cluster contains millions of stars, and there are many ... > full story -
Mapping the Milky Way: Radio Telescopes Give Clues to Structure, History
January 9, 2013 — Surveys of the Milky Way are vastly increasing the number of known sites of massive star formation, tracing the structure of the Galaxy and giving clues to its history, including evidence of possible ... > full story -
SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center
January 8, 2013 — Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole ... > full story -
First 'Bone' of the Milky Way Identified
January 8, 2013 — Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- a pinwheel-shaped collection of stars, gas and dust. It has a central bar and two major spiral arms that wrap around its disk. Since we view the Milky Way from the ... > full story
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